Wilkinson Economie made in Germany

Has anybody every heard of Wilkinson Economie DE blade made in Germany supposed to be a platinum coated with Inossidabile / Inoxisable, what's your experience with these blades and have you ever used them during you're shaves are these still available on the market.

Has anybody every heard of Wilkinson Economie DE blade made in Germany supposed to be a platinum coated with Inossidabile / Inoxisable, what's your experience with these blades and have you ever used them during you're shaves are these still available on the market.

i have a pack of these blades and I found them quite good, I never really got on well with the regular current Wilkinson blades (the NOS made in England variety are excellent). I must try the current Wilkinson blades again as these economie ones were fine and I can't imagine they are that different, I am guessing that the economie ones are just sold in bulk for barber shops etc.

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I am pretty sure these are still readily available. I got mine from here:

Hello. You can find the Wilkinson economie in a few online stores in Italy, but honestly, amongst wetshavers i haven't seen anyone liking them and even barbers/hairdressers are more onto Astra, Elios or Derby than anything else. I have yet to see an italian wetshaver say "i 've bought 100 Wilkinson economie". They don't even make sense price-wise in the italian market.

Recently on a whim I ordered a single WS Economie blade that is purportedly made in Germany. I merely tossed it into the basket on the order just out of curiosity as I had tried one a few years back and I remember it as rough (see above). Well, I used this new one today in a Gillette English postwar Tech with P&B Spitfire soap and the resultant shave was simply without peer!!

Now I don't know if it was a fluke or what. Perhaps an experimental blade slipped out.

Regardless, I am talking top tier Gillette type shave here, i.e., no resistance and perfect glide. Color me impressed, or was it the soap perhaps............